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Friction and wear in cryogenic liquids for composites of phenolic and of polytetrafluoroethylene of various particle sizes and concentrations
Friction and wear in cryogenic liquids for phenolic and polytetrafluoroethylene composites of various particle sizes and concentration
Interaction effects and transport properties of Pt capped Co nanoparticles
We studied the magnetic and transport properties of Co nanoparticles (NPs)
being capped with varying amounts of Pt. Beside field and temperature dependent
magnetization measurements we performed delta-M measurements to study the
magnetic interactions between the Co NPs. We observe a transition from
demagnetizing towards magnetizing interactions between the particles for an
increasing amount of Pt capping. Resistivity measurements show a crossover from
giant magnetoresistance towards anisotropic magnetoresistance
Time scale, objectivity and irreversibility in quantum mechanics
It is argued that setting isolated systems as primary scope of field theory
and looking at particles as derived entities, the problem of an objective
anchorage of quantum mechanics can be solved and irreversibility acquires a
fundamental role. These general ideas are checked in the case of the Boltzmann
description of a dilute gas.Comment: 13 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the XXI
International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, 1996
(Goslar, Germany
Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Dipole Echo in Glasses with Nuclear Quadrupole Moments
The effect of a magnetic field on the dipole echo amplitude in glasses at
temperatures of about 10 mK caused by nonspherical nuclei with electric
quadrupole moments has been studied theoretically. It has been shown that in
this case, the two-level systems (TLS's) that determine the glass properties at
low temperatures are transformed into more complicated multilevel systems.
These systems have new properties as compared to usual TLS's and, in
particular, exhibit oscillations of electric dipole echo amplitude in magnetic
field. A general formula that describes the echo amplitude in an arbitrary
split TLS has been derived with perturbation theory. Detailed analytic and
numerical analysis of the formula has been performed. The theory agrees
qualitatively and quantitatively well with experimental data.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Full photon statistics of a light beam transmitted through an optomechanical system
In this paper, we study the full statistics of photons transmitted through an
optical cavity coupled to nanomechanical motion. We analyze the entire temporal
evolution of the photon correlations, the Fano factor, and the effects of
strong laser driving, all of which show pronounced features connected to the
mechanical backaction. In the regime of single-photon strong coupling, this
allows us to predict a transition from sub-Poissonian to super-Poissonian
statistics for larger observation time intervals. Furthermore, we predict
cascades of transmitted photons triggered by multi-photon transitions. In this
regime, we observe Fano factors that are drastically enhanced due to the
mechanical motion.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
An electrostatically defined serial triple quantum dot charged with few electrons
A serial triple quantum dot (TQD) electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs
heterostructure is characterized by using a nearby quantum point contact as
charge detector. Ground state stability diagrams demonstrate control in the
regime of few electrons charging the TQD. An electrostatic model is developed
to determine the ground state charge configurations of the TQD. Numerical
calculations are compared with experimental results. In addition, the tunneling
conductance through all three quantum dots in series is studied. Quantum
cellular automata processes are identified, which are where charge
reconfiguration between two dots occurs in response to the addition of an
electron in the third dot.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figure
Frame formalism for the N-dimensional quantum Euclidean spaces
We sketch our recent application of a non-commutative version of the Cartan
`moving-frame' formalism to the quantum Euclidean space , the space
which is covariant under the action of the quantum group . For each of
the two covariant differential calculi over based on the -matrix
formalism, we summarize our construction of a frame, the dual inner
derivations, a metric and two torsion-free almost metric compatible covariant
derivatives with a vanishing curvature. To obtain these results we have
developed a technique which fully exploits the quantum group covariance of
. We first find a frame in the larger algebra \Omega^*(R^N_q) \cocross
\uqs. Then we define homomorphisms from R^N_q \cocross U_q^{\pm}{so(N)} to
which we use to project this frame in .Comment: Latex file, 11 pages. Talks given at the Euroconference
``Non-commutative Geometry and Hopf Algebras in Field Theory and Particle
Physics'', Villa Gualino (Torino), Sept. 199
Field-induced structural aging in glasses at ultra low temperatures
In non-equilibrium experiments on the glasses Mylar and BK7, we measured the
excess dielectric response after the temporary application of a strong electric
bias field at mK--temperatures. A model recently developed describes the
observed long time decays qualitatively for Mylar [PRL 90, 105501, S. Ludwig,
P. Nalbach, D. Rosenberg, D. Osheroff], but fails for BK7. In contrast, our
results on both samples can be described by including an additional mechanism
to the mentioned model with temperature independent decay times of the excess
dielectric response. As the origin of this novel process beyond the "tunneling
model" we suggest bias field induced structural rearrangements of "tunneling
states" that decay by quantum mechanical tunneling.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted at PRL, corrected typos in version
Quantum measurement problem and cluster separability
A modified Beltrametti-Cassinelli-Lahti model of measurement apparatus that
satisfies both the probability reproducibility condition and the
objectification requirement is constructed. Only measurements on microsystems
are considered. The cluster separability forms a basis for the first working
hypothesis: the current version of quantum mechanics leaves open what happens
to systems when they change their separation status. New rules that close this
gap can therefore be added without disturbing the logic of quantum mechanics.
The second working hypothesis is that registration apparatuses for microsystems
must contain detectors and that their readings are signals from detectors. This
implies that separation status of a microsystem changes during both preparation
and registration. A new rule that specifies what happens at these changes and
that guarantees the objectification is formulated and discussed. A part of our
result has certain similarity with 'collapse of the wave function'.Comment: 31 pages, no figure. Published versio
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